Windaroo Veterinary Surgery

Staff Profiles

Meet our friendly staff. Click on the staff thumbnail images below to read more about them.

Lisa Roberts

Geoff Tempany

Kelly Thorne

Lisa Richards

Lisa Roberts - BVSc (Hons), MACVSc

Lisa is a graduate from the University of Sydney in 1990, and since have worked in mixed practices in Sydney, Nowra, and Port Macquarie. In 1999 her family moved to Queensland so she could study Dermatology exclusively.

Lisa has been a joint owner of a vet practice in Logan Village and also worked as a locum in dozens of surgeries in Brisbane’s south side.
There’s not much time outside work anymore, but when she can she has been known to enjoy jet-sking with Dave and the girls, netball and dancing.

Lisa gets a lot of satisfaction from helping dogs with chronic skin diseases, by finding solutions to complex medical cases and by performing dental procedures on pets to improve their general wellbeing and quality of life. She enjoys' working with all types of dogs, cats and other small furry creatures, but admits a soft spot for the mini Foxies.

Geoff Tempany - Veterinary Nurse

Geoff comes from a diverse work background ranging from retail to accounting. His true interests however, lie in the health and welfare of animals.

Having held this interest and been surrounded by pets his entire life, he decided to focus on making Veterinary Science his new career path.
Geoff is presently undertaking studies in Veterinary Nursing with an initial goal to be certified within the coming years.

He has a commonsense approach with a friendly, humorous nature. He also loves movies and is more than willing to help out with enquiries of this kind! Geoff lives with his wife Nikki, baby girl named Eva and their loved but naughty dog Scooter and Ebony the greyhound. He looks forward to meeting you and your pet in the near future.

Kelly Thorne - Veterinary Nurse

Kelly has over 10 years experience in the veterinary industry. She enjoys the variety of work that comes with veterinary nursing with particular interests in dentistry, radiology, emergency cases and working with pet wellness programs.

Kelly was born in New Zealand, and moved to Australia with her partner and son in 1995. They have since extended their family by having another 2 children – 22 months apart – which makes for a very busy life! They have lived in Windaroo for over 10 years watching the area grow enormously. Included in the family is 2 cats, a beautiful staffy x mastiff named "Angus" and an eclectus parrot named "Hulk".

In her spare time the family likes to go to the park, beach, bbqs, motorbike riding, playing sport. Kelly is also a keen netball player who plays' as much as she can.

GO THE KIWIS!!!!

Lisa Richards - BVSc (Hons), MACVSc, MVS

Lisa has been a practising Veterinarian for 25 years, the majority of that time in small animal practice. This has been spread amongst small animal and greyhound private practice, university clinical and referral practice, and quite a few years locum work throughout the UK.

She has a masters in Veterinary Medicine and Surgery from Melbourne University and is a member of the Australian College of Veterinary Scientists in Canine Medicine.

Love of animals, a desire to make them better when they are sick and sad, and to prevent them suffering is what brings Lisa to work. Alot of experience, together with both University and 'Real World' training mean that Lisa can usually tailor her patients' treatments to what is practical for the client to achieve and afford, whilst still giving the optimum outcome.